SpaceClaim Online Help

Creating beam profiles

You can create your own beam profiles and save them as files.

To use these profiles, click Profiles, select More Profiles, and then browse to locate the SCDOC fileFile format for SpaceClaim files (.scdoc). Files comply with the Microsoft Open Packaging Convention, which is also used by Microsoft Office 2007. These files are actually zip archives with a special structure, the contents of which are primarily XML data..

To create a profile without creating a beam

1. Sketch the profile.

2. Click PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. in the Edit group on the Design2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. tab.

3. Pull to extrude the profile into a solid.

4. Change the color of the face you want to use as the profile.

   You can change this face to any color, as long as it overrides the color of the solid. Only one face can have a color override, otherwise SpaceClaim won't know which face is used for the profile.

5. Save the design as an SCDOC file.

To create a profile based on an extracted beam

1. Sketch the profile.

2. Click Pull in the Edit group on the Design tab.

3. Pull to extrude the profile into a solid.

4. Click Extract in the Beams group on the Prepare tab.

5. Select the solid you created in the previous steps.

6. Right-click the profile in the Beam Profiles folder and select Save beam profile.

7. Browse to the folder where you want to save the profile, type a file name, and click Save.

By default, the SectionDesign mode in which you edit solids by working with their edges and vertices in cross-section. ViewOrientation settings that you can apply to your design, including spin, pan, and zoom. You can adjust these settings individually or you can apply one of the following preconfigured views: Trimetric, Isometric, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Right, Left. You can also select Snap View and click a face to view it head-on. is cut away to show interior detail. Anchor lies on the centroid of the profile. The Section Anchor is the point where the profile attaches to the beam path. You can change this in two ways.

• Use the Orient tool in the Beams group of the Prepare tab
• Select the beam and change the Section Anchor property